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Would further interest rate rises do more harm than good?

In the past 7 months, the Reserve Bank has increased the cash rate by 275...

Inflation is soaring and real wages are plummeting

On Wednesday the latest inflation figures showed that in the 12 months to September prices...

Job Opening: Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow

Applications are due at 11:59 pm 21 November 2022. The Melbourne-based position will start in...

The Reserve Bank needs to acknowledge the failures of the inflation target

Inflation has accelerated both in Australia and in most advanced economies to rates much faster...

Families change but the same problems remain

The latest data from the Bureau of Statistics on families shows that more than ever...

Webinar on Wages, Prices, and Power

The Australian Council of Trade Unions is sponsoring a series of webinars for union members,...

With a global recession looming the cure of inflation looks to be worse than the disease

This week the IMF released its latest World Economic Outlook. And the outlook is dire....

Yesterday’s Tomorrow Today – a new podcast from the Carmichael Centre at the Centre for Future Work

Laurie Carmichael believed that a worker-centred agenda for technological change was important to achieving better...

The UK shows how bad the Stage 3 tax cuts will be

This week the UK government introduced massive high-income tax cuts – cuts that are not...
International Seafarers

International seafarers suffer $65 million in wage theft annually in Australian waters

Seafarers are subject to some of the worst exploitation and abuse of any occupation in...

They didn’t cause the inflation, but workers are expected to cure it

Last week before the House Economics Committee, the Governor of the Reserve Bank made it...

The latest data shows just how bad housing affordability is

Since the Reserve Bank began raising interest rates in May, the housing market has very...